Texas Instruments Supports Training for STEM Teachers
For more than 80 years, Texas Instruments has used increasingly complex signal-processing technology to repeatedly change the world. To continue this flow of innovation, TI and UT Dallas have partnered on a new program that will seek to rectify the fact that 80 percent of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teachers in secondary schools are not certified to teach these disciplines. Read more
Ericsson Supports UT Dallas across Campus
Ericsson provides communication networks, telecom services and multimedia solutions to operators and service providers in more than 180 countries around the globe. Closer to home, UT Dallas has benefitted from being just a few miles from Ericsson’s North American headquarters in Plano. Read more
IBM Sponsors Camp for High Schoolers
In 2012, IBM hosted its 3rd annual IBM Summer Innovation Camp in partnership with UT Dallas. This was the first time the free camp was hosted on a college campus. Seventy DFW high school students with computer science backgrounds spent three days at UT Dallas and a final day at the IBM Innovation Center in Dallas. Read more
AT&T Leaders Address Academic Bridge Students
The Academic Bridge Program recruits and assists first-generation college students from local school districts to participate in an intensive summer session prior to their freshman year. Along with tutoring, honing study habits and acclimating to college life, the newest Academic Bridge freshman class had the opportunity to receive career advice from two of AT&T’s highest-level executives. Read more
Time Warner Cable Supports STEM Camp
During summer 2012, UT Dallas and title sponsor Time Warner Cable and community partner Project Still I Rise, Inc. hosted the Urban STEM Initiative Camp, which serves underrepresented students from urban areas. About two dozen middle and high school students visited UT Dallas for an immersive college experience aimed at cultivating their interests in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. Read more
Enterprise Rent-A-Car Finds Recruits on Campus
Enterprise Rent-A-Car is known for its college graduate Management Training program, which takes recent college graduates and prepares then to be the future leaders of the company. Enterprise regularly attends UT Dallas career expos to recruit all majors across campus. Read more
New Executive Master's in Software Engineering
The Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science has created an Executive Master's in Software Engineering. The degree provides practical, professional education to full-time software employees in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. The program aims to equip students with the skills necessary to pursue positions of increasing professional responsibility throughout their careers. Read more
Luminant Collaborates with Exec Ed
As part of the Naveen Jindal School of Management’s Executive Education division, Corporate Education custom-designs a variety of leadership development programs and initiatives for organizations across the globe. Corporate Education has a strong partnership with electricity provider Luminant, which is part of Energy Future Holdings Corp., formerly TXU Corp. Together, Corporate Education and Lumniant are designing and developing an eight-day leadership development program for the company. Read more
Raytheon: A Strong Support
Raytheon's long-standing, broad-based partnership with the University has benefitted the company and campus in many key areas. Raytheon invests in student development by providing merit-based scholarships, supporting an undergraduate research competition and interacting with student organizations. Participation on advisory boards also allows Raytheon to help shape the direction of academic programs. And the company collaborates on sponsored research and student design projects. Read more
WrightIMC Supports EMAC Alumna
Lan Nyguen's bachelor's degree in Emerging Media and Communications (EMAC) positioned her for career success, helping her score a part-time position with Manhattan’s DramaFever and a full time job with Plano-based WrightIMC.
WrightIMC was founded in 2007 and provides clients with consulting and integrated marketing solutions. Read more
Zyvex Labs, Research Collaboration
Richardson-based Zyvex Labs, a leading company in the pioneering field of nanotechnology, is dedicated to developing atomically precise manufacturing. The company has collaborators across the country, as well as in Europe, Asia, and Australia. But Zyvez also consistently partners locally with UT Dallas on summer internships, student research contracts and UT Design projects. “It is one of the best institutions in the world to collaborate with on advanced research projects,” said Dr. John Randall, president of Zyvex. Read more
Deloitte Hosts Alumni Reception
Deloitte’s Dallas office recently hosted a reception for UT Dallas alumni who work at the company.
Members of Deloitte’s senior leadership, along with University faculty, staff and administrators attended the event. Deloitte was a founding strategic partner when the Naveen Jindal School of Management’s Institute for Excellence in Corporate Governance was founded in 2003. Read more
PlainsCapital Provides Major Gift To Center for BrainHealth
The UT Dallas Center for BrainHealth has received a $150,000 gift from PlainsCapital Corp., support intended to help the University’s drive toward becoming a nationally competitive research institution. Read more
Research Shows Nerve Stimulation Can Help Reorganize Brain
UT Dallas researchers recently demonstrated how nerve stimulation paired with specific experiences, such as movements or sounds, can reorganize the brain. This technology could lead to new treatments for stroke, tinnitus, autism and other disorders. Read more
New Research Could Mean Cellphones That Can See Through Walls
Comic book hero superpowers may be one step closer to reality after the latest technological feats made by researchers at UT Dallas. They have designed an imager chip that could turn mobile phones into devices that can see through walls, wood, plastics, paper and other objects. Read more
New The Jonsson School Celebrates 25 Years
The Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science proudly celebrated its founding and achievements during a series of events held during the 2011 – 2012 year commemorating the school's 25th anniversary. Read more
New Certificate Offers Healthcare IT Training for Growing Field
Healthcare management and information systems are flourishing disciplines that the Naveen Jindal School of Management is combining in a new certificate program intended to give students professional credentials in the growing field of healthcare information technology. Read more
L3 Communications Helps Math, Science Students
Leading aerospace defense contractor L-3 Communications has donated a large collection of night-vision goggles to UT Dallas’ School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. The gift-in-kind, valued at nearly $700,000, was made through L-3 Infrared Products, the Dallas-area division of the company. Read more
Texas Instruments hosts Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day
Texas Instruments recently hosted Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day. Part of the day's activities included providing information to young people about local universities, TI affinity groups and other organizations. UT Dallas staff and faculty were on hand to meet with the young participants. TI played an integral part in UT Dallas' history and growth. Today, it is the largest corporate employer of University graduates. Read more
Political Science Alumnus is NatureSweet CEO
A book that Bryant Ambelang read as a UT Dallas undergraduate planted the seeds for his future in business. Ambelang, the CEO of NatureSweet Tomatoes in San Antonio, initially wanted to work in public service. Read more
Callier Center Raises $100,000 for Patient Care
The first Callier Cares Luncheon brought together 320 philanthropists, top-flight researchers and clinicians to support the work of the UT Dallas Callier Center for Communication Disorders, which has provided hearing and speech-language therapies to thousands of North Texans during the past five decades. Read more